Butter-board for harvesters



(No Model.)

J. J. DEWEY.

I BUTTER BOARD FOR HARVESTBRS.

Patented May 18, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. DEVEY, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BUTTER-BOARD FOR HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 342,288, dated May 18, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN J. DEWEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Boards forSelf-Binding Harvesters; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 ofthe drawings is a perspective view of a portion of a self-binding harvester, showing my invention; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the board.

This invention has relation to grain-adjusting self-binding grain-harvesters; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A designates a part of the platform; L, a part of the main frame, and M a portion of the bindertable.

D is the butt-board for straightening the butts of the grain and adjusting the grain for the binder. It is hung on the arm 99 and crank-arm 100, which are pivoted at one end to said board, and at their other ends respectively to the bearings O and p. The inner surface of the butting-board consists of the bevelfaced ribs a, as shown in the drawings.

To the crankarm 100, underneath its bearing P, is secured the crank-arm Q, which is connected with the sickle-pitman R by the links S. By this means the arm is given a reciprocating movement, and at the same time a slight sidewise motion, whereby it operates to cuff the butts of the grain in and to even them, and also to carry said butts up the bindertable.

The arm 99, on which the outer end of the butting-board swings, is pivoted to the arms T and U on the rock-shaft V, which, when turned in its bearings \V on the main frame L, carries that end of the board in or out, as may be desired, to adjust the grain back on the table more or less, according to its length, in order that the band may be placed entirely around the bundle. It is moved in or out and fastened in any desired position by means of the rod I, reaching to a point within reach of the driver, and locked in its adjusted position by any well-known means. The rod I is connected at J to a crank-arm of the rock-shaft V.

Having described this invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination, with the ribbed buttingboard D, of the arm 99, the adjustable bearing in which said arm is pivoted,thecrankarm100, provided with the arm Q, the sickle-pitman, and the connectingrod S, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a ribbed buttingboard, a pivoted arm supporting one end of said board and driving the same,'means for giving said arm a rotary reciprocating motion, a pivoted arm supporting the other end of said board, and a laterally-adj ustable bearing for the last-named arm, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the butting-board, of the pivoted arm 99, supporting one end of the same, the rock-shaft V, having projecting arms provided with bearings for said arm, and means for rocking said rock-shaft, whereby the butt-board may be adjusted laterally, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN J. DEWEY.

Witnesses:

LOUIS M. HASTINGS, JAMES B. BEALS. 

